9. The ―Big Trestle‖ near Promontory Summit show some of the engineering accomplishments of the railroad
construction crews. This trestle, at 405 feet long and 85 feet high, was assembled in just 38 days and was so
flimsy that one reporter warned it ―will shake the nerves of the stoutest hearts to cross it.‖
10. “The Last Spike” at Promontory Summit, 10 May 1869 completing
the transcontinental railroad. A.J. Russell was the photographer
18. ―What a Funny Little Government‖
The Verdict on January 22, 1900 shows Rockefeller holding the White House in his hand, while
the U.S. Capitol has been converted into an oil refinery.
25. This is Alexander Graham-Bell's telephone,
which he demonstrated to the world in 1876
at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.
After witnessing how voice was transmitted
over wire, the emperor of Brazil cried out,
"My God, it talks!"
26. Alexander Graham Bell placing the first telephone call
between New York and Chicago in 1892
30. Thomas Edison's Laboratories in Menlo Park, NJ, c. 1880
Thomas Edison's dream of illuminating the world is illustrated by this fanciful drawing of his
laboratories in Menlo Park, New Jersey. For the time being, however, it was the American home
that was the primary beneficiary of Edison's wonderful light bulb, since electricity was slow to
arrive in many parts of the world.
55. ―The Female Slaves of New York. –
‗Sweaters‘ and their Victims. 1) Scene in a
‗sweater‗s‘ factory; 2) The End; 3) Scene at
the Grand Street Ferry,‖ Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper, November 3, 1888
63. ―Welcome to All!,‖ Puck, April 28, 1880.
―We may say that the present influx of immigrants to the United States is something unprecedented in our generation.‖ -- N.Y. Statistical Review
64. ―New York - Welcome to the land of freedom - An ocean steamer passing the Statue of Liberty:
Scene on the steerage deck‖ Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 2 July 1887.
69. Dalrymple‘s cartoon giving a harsh warning about ―The High Tide of Immigration.‖ He believes the danger
lies in the number of immigrants as well as in their origins and character as ―riff raff.‖ (1903)
73. Technological advances, the Brooklyn Bridge under construction. It
was completed in 1883 and connected the largest and the third
largest cities together (Brooklyn and New York)
74. Brooklyn Bridge in 1890 with sailing ship beneath. Notice how the
bridge towers over the surrounding neighborhoods.
82. ―Garbage in the streets, East Fifth Street, N.Y.C. tenement area,‖ Jacob Riis photo (ca 1890)
83. New York City in 1885
This photograph shows the crowded,
chaotic nature of lower Manhattan in
the 1880s. This is Broadway at
Cortlandt Street. Note the crowded
street, with horse-drawn street car and
the utility poles containing telephone
and electric wires.
88. The Midway, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL (1893) In the background is the Ferris
Wheel on the ―Midway‖. The wheel was 264 feet high, held 36 cars capable of holding 60 people
at once. Fully loaded, 2,160 people could be on the wheel at a time.
89. Ferris Wheel in 1893 at the ―fair‖. Notice how it towers over the landscape.
95. Packing houses in the distance. Covered pens for hogs and sheep; open pens for cattle. Area of yards, 75 acres;
50 miles railroad tracks. Daily capacity: 25,000 head cattle, 160,000 hogs, 10,000 sheep, and 1,000 horses.
112. Tom Torlino as he arrived Tom Torlino several months
at The Carlisle school later
October 21, 1882 from his
Navajo tribe.
113. The students at the Carlisle School of Captain Richard Pratt.
114.
115. Annie Oakley. Though she “advertised” the West in Buffalo
Bill’s Wild West show, she never lived west of Ohio.
116. ―Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill, 1885‖
Photograph originally taken by William
Notman studios, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada, during Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Show, August 1885
128. An artist‘s rendering of the explosion which destroyed the Maine
on 15 February 1898 in Havana, Cuba harbor.
129. ―DECLINED WITH THANKS‖
The Antis, ―Here, take a dose of this anti-fat and get thin again!‖
Uncle Sam, ―No, Sonny! I never did like any of that stuff, and I‘m too old to begin!‖
Lithography by S. Pughe in Puck, 5 September 1900
130. Progressive Reform – efforts to solve
problems of the Gilded Age
• Big Business
– Is big necessarily “evil” or bad?
– Consumer rights and protections
• Labor issues
– Child and women workers
– Hours, wages, conditions
• Urban problems
• Democracy
• “Welfare State”
– Expansion of government functions
Notas do Editor
Visions of America, 470
Liberty, Equality, Power, 5e concise, 473.
Enduring Vision, 7e, 515.
Enduring Vision, 7e, 515.
Visions of America, 475
Norton Media Library, Foner, Give Me Liberty, 2e, 637.